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To: Gladwin
Electric light bulbs didn't influence Edison into committing mass murder. Darwin's racism and his ideas on survival of the fitest where the foundation of Hitler's desire to exterminate the handicapped and elderly and to create a master race.
118 posted on 01/28/2002 10:06:41 AM PST by Ol' Sparky
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To: Ol' Sparky
Electric light bulbs didn't influence Edison into committing mass murder. Darwin's racism and his ideas on survival of the fitest where the foundation of Hitler's desire to exterminate the handicapped and elderly and to create a master race.

It is not an advantage to a humans to kill off the elderly. They help their family and/or tribe by relating experience and knowledge they have gained during their life. Competition among humans is between tribes rather than between individual people. Darwin did not argue for human extermination programs. This is a common misunderstanding of the phrase "survival of the fittest".

Anti-Jewish pogroms have a long history in Europe, and the holocaust was the industrialization of the medieval pogrom.

129 posted on 01/28/2002 10:51:01 AM PST by Gladwin
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